Question

Outside our hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a seemingly ancient woman waited beside the door with her hand outstretched. Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met. She never failed to return my smile, my grasp, and my greeting.

    On the last day of our visit, I found myself alone on a busy corner across the street from our hotel. Bicycles and motorbikes rushed in front of me. As I hesitated on the sidewalk, I felt a hand on my elbow and looked down to see the smile of my small beggar friend looking up at me. She nodded her head toward the street, indicating that she would take me across. Together, we moved slowly into the chaos.

    Then we moved on toward the sidewalk, where she pulled my face down to hers, kissed me on both cheeks, and then left, still smiling and waving back to me.

Traveling in poorer nations, I have witnessed a variety of ways to deal with beggars. The most common response of tourists faced with the poverty-stricken is to ignore them and focus their eyes elsewhere. I have seen people push away an outstretched hand in angry annoyance. A few may drop a few coins into the hand in a hurry, hoping that other ragged pursuers won’t immediately appear on the scene.

For many reasons, giving money is not the best response to an outstretched hand. Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect. Everyone needs recognition, to be seen as worthy of being known, to feel appreciated and loved. And I believe that everyone is worthy and worth knowing.

1.The woman beggars helped the author go across the busy street because __________.

A．the author gave her material assistance

B．the author treated her kindly and friendly

C．the author would help her as a reward

D．the author was a foreigner

2.From the story, what position of the beggars in the author’s mind might be?

    A．equal                B．superior      C．lower          D．valuable

3.In common cases, people will do the following things to the beggars EXCEPT for ________.

    A．pretending to see nothing

B．handing out some money

    C．refusing them angrily

D．greeting them normally

4.According to the author, the most important things beggars really need are _________.

    A．mercy and pity 　B．money and food

C．smile and greeting  D．attention and respect

5.The purpose of the passage is to _________.

    A．show how poor the beggars are in Vietnam

    B．offer some advice on dealing with begging

    C．express what we should offer the beggars

    D．describe an experience with a beggar       

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.D

5.C

【解析】

1.細節理解題。結合文章中的Every day I put my hand in hers as our eyes met（。每天，當我和她目光交匯時，我都會把我的手放在她的手里。）和Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect…（他們所能給予的最好禮物是他們的時間與友情。每個人都需要認同，需要關注，需要感激和關愛。）可知作者并沒有給woman beggars錢或其它東西，而是認同和關愛。

2.推理判斷題。結合文章最后一句I believe that everyone is worthy and worth knowing（我堅信每個人都是有價值的――值得你去了解）可知在作者心目中所有的人都是平等的。

3.細節理解題。結合The most common response of tourists faced with the poverty-stricken is to ignore them and focus their eyes elsewhere. I have seen people push away an outstretched hand in angry annoyance. A few may drop a few coins into the hand in a hurry（面對窮人最常見的回應是不理睬，還有轉移注意力。我曾看見有人非常惱火地把他們的伸出來的手推開。還有一些人急匆匆地把幾個硬幣丟在他們乞求的手掌里）可知D項不合題意。

4.細節理解題。結合Many world travelers have discovered that the greatest gift they can give is their time and respect可知答案。

5.寫作目的題。作者結合自己的一次經歷告訴人們：對于乞丐來說，給他們錢并不是最好的回應。他們也需要認同，需要關注，需要感激和關愛。